Micro Commission Open Call

Market Gallery is now accepting submissions for short works of different textures, resonances and affect across printed material & ephemera, to be published in celebration of our twenty-fifth birthday this September. This is a funded opportunity inviting Scotland-based artists & writers to respond to the broader themes in Market Gallery’s programme, grounded in Edouard Glissant’s…

Ruby Allen – Live Art Commission

Introducing our new Live Art Commission, which supports the production of a new live art or performance work from an emerging artist based in Glasgow. Focusing on experimental forms the commission culminates in a public performance, taking place in August. ruby allen {nella}{bury} is an artist and vocalist working with the yelps, textures and rhythms…

Join our board!

Market Gallery is looking for new board members to start between August-October 2025. We are a small, dedicated board of trustees who advise a Programming Committee and Programme Administrator on how to achieve their goals, and continue the organisation’s 20+ years of supporting emerging artists and creating platforms for learning, research and community. This is…

Rush Johnstone – Reader Residency – June 2025

We are excited to announce the artist taking part on the Studio Residency across the month of June 2025. Rush Johnstone is an artist and creative coder using digital tools, critical spatial analysis, and data storytelling to document how state-built infrastructures and systems echo in our present moment of geospatial paranoia and border violence. Rush…

here is where we meet

“Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the present puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another.” Constituting an Archive, Stuart Hall It’s a Saturday at Market Gallery and the energy from the Barras swarms the…

From A Distance / text response to the Reader Residency by Harvey Dimond

‘Hydrocolonialism riffs off the term postcolonialism and, like that concept, has a wide potential remit that could include colonization by way of water (various forms of maritime imperialism), colonization of water (occu- pation of land with water resources, the declaration of territorial waters, the militarization and geopoliticization of oceans), a colony on (or in) water…

as a point of departure | A little extra

as a point of departure was presented within Glasgow International 2024, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. In conjunction with their sound work, Alma Simba and Darragh Amelia offered a sharing of audiovisual and literary landing points which informed the process of making and communicating at distance. Film and TV This Is My Life (1992) dir.…

Library Digest: Kirsteen Stevenson

A review of Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby. Scanned Image: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, Verso Books, London, pp. 324-325, 160-161. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, begins with ‘the girl’ – the girl who is constantly asked ‘the question!’. ‘The question’ was always lying in wait –…

Library Digest: Beulah Ezeugo

Keep it in Mind: A review of In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices by a.pass Scanned Images 1 & 2: Philippine Hoegen, Lilia Mestre, Various Authors (2022) In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, Onomatopee 181, Netherlands, pp. 210-211, 160-161. I started reading ‘In These…

Open Letter in Solidarity with the People of Palestine

Image: Yousef Anastas We, the committee members of Market Gallery, write to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and their struggle for life, freedom and dignity. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire. We condemn Western support of the ongoing occupation and systemic violation of human rights which normalises dangerous rhetoric and propagates…